Book description
Happiness is Possible tells the story of a writer late delivering his
novel, unable to write anything uplifting since his wife walked out. All
he can produce is notes about the happiness of others. But something
draws him into the Moscow lives around him, bringing together lonely
neighbours, restoring lost love, and helping out with building
renovations. And happiness seems determined to catch up with him as
well…
Oleg Zaionchkovsky was born in 1959 in Samara, on the east bank of the
Volga River. His first book, Sergeev and the Town, was shortlisted for
both the Russian Booker Prize and the National Bestseller Prize. In
2010, Happiness is Possible was shortlisted for both the Russian Booker
and the Russian Big Book prize. He spent all his adult life, until a
recent move to Moscow, in the small town of Khotkovo, working as a test
engineer in a factory making rocket engines.
